Optional asynchronous rating

Guidewire recommends you write your rating code to rate the policy synchronously. In other words, even if you need to call out to an external system, your code does not return to the caller until either it succeeds or it fails. By default, PolicyCenter assumes synchronous rating. The QuoteProcess.requestQuote() method calls to the rating plugin to rate the policy. After that completes, the requestQuote method then calls its own handleQuoteResponse method.

You can modify PolicyCenter to perform asynchronous rating if necessary. For example, instead of immediately returning a result and notifying the quote process, the rating engine generates a messaging event using the PolicyCenter messaging system. If you want asynchronous rating, you must make changes to the built-in code.